Monday, 14 March 2016

Humiliation / Savage Deity - Devastation / War Crime

Brutal Art Records owner must like
Humiliation a lot, because this band appeared on almost every release from his
label… on five, to be exact. Here’s one of them, this time we have split with
two Asian bands: Humiliation (Malaysia) and Savage Deity (Thailand). Yes, we
have two Asian death metal bands released on European label, something what
doesn’t happen I think so often!

After hearing two other split
seven inches, I already know what can I expect from Humiliation and these two
new songs doesn’t bring any surprises. This is still the same Bolt Thrower,
Hail of Bullets, old Gorefest kind of old school death metal, with heavy as
fuck sound and riffage that brings utter devastation. Hmm, even if I feel like
the songs from other splits that I’ve listened to were a bit better (especially
on Obscure Infinity split), these tracks are still solid and worthy, especially
the second one called “Tank”. The tempo is constantly slow, the overall sound
is just massive crushing beast, with some melodic accents here and there… but
it just sounds great. I don’t know if it works on full length albums (but will
find out soon, as I’m waiting for two albums now, which I ordered after hearing
Humiliation music for the first time few days ago), but on shorter releases it’s
great and you don’t feel any need for some faster parts, etc. Just very good, severe
stuff.

And now Savage Deity. I’ve
never heard of this Thai band, but they surprised me also, with quite good
quality of death metal. They’re maybe not as good as Humiliation, but damn, if
you like bands like Grave, old Death, Hail of Bullets, even a bit of newer
Deicide and such, then this stuff is for you. Their music doesn’t excite me
fully, but it’s solid for sure and I cannot say anything bad about them. “Unit
731” is my favourite of the two songs, it’s very good indeed. It was nice to
hear some faster parts in it, together with the slow stuff with quite melodic leads.
Definitely Savage Deity is another band from Asia to check for you. They also
have one full length album.